The free MAXQDA Reader
Viewing and understanding project data without a MAXQDA license
Everyone can now view, search for, browse and “dig through” data using the MAXQDA-Reader. However, data editing and coding of a project is still only available to MAXQDA license holders.
What is the purpose of the Reader?
- Knowledge Management - All knowledge resources (for example in organizations) can be made available to specific target groups without manipulation of the data.
- Evaluation - Examiners are able to easily see and understand their student’s project data.
- Research Centers, Museums or Libraries - Data may be made accessible without really “giving up the wheel”.
- Teaching - Professors can view their students’ project data in order to comment on their work. Real project read-only files allow to track and discuss distinct stages of the qualitative data analysis process.
- Teamwork - Teams can track and discuss several stages and steps throughout the analytical process on un-editable files. This way it is possible to distribute material within a research facility.
Functions
With the MAXQDA-Reader, you can:
- understand different steps of the analysis
- read texts and memos
- view codes
- activate texts and codes
- conduct a text retrieval
- print texts
- export: Code Tree, Document System, Code System, Retrieved Segments, Text Browser
- create visualizations with the help of Text Portrait, Codeline, Code-Matrix and Code-Relations-Browser, MAXMaps, and Text Comparison Chart
- create overviews of: memos, links, attributes, code frequencies, index of codings
- and search for specific terms.
User comments
"[…] The new version is very helpful and it offered me all the facilities I required. Being able to correct transcripts is good; memos worked well; and being able to copy and drop things into word is good. Frequencies are also another good feature, as is the weighting. The manual is very helpful. Also being able to change codes is an improvement on earlier versions."
(John Harland, LC Research, UK)